When is Performance Art going to die?

[LynneSin]

Actually, I have no problem with it. I posted this so people could see the stupidity of dissing an artistic genre simply because he/she doesn't like it or get it.

[billyskank]

1. As soon as my diabolical plot comes to fruition!

:evilgrin:

[LSdemocrat]

2. How is intensely hating a form of entertainment stupid?

It's just a matter of personal taste. If someone hates whatever and voices their opinion, what does it really matter?

[LynneSin]

3. Hey, I dislike Country Music just as much as the next person

but if Dolly Parton had won, I wouldn't be getting all pissing and dissing Country Music here on DU.

It's a person taste and I find it offensive that we would actually post crap about "When is it going to die". This is so beneath us because I think of this as a progressive website and threads like that Rap thread is the kind of crap I'd expect to find on Free Republic.

People have rights to opinions but that doesn't make their opinion any more correct then someone else

[LSdemocrat]

4. I just don't see how hatred of a genre is indicative of anything else

Just because someone intensely hates the existence of some form of entertainment, doesn't automatically draw any inference other than that person hates that one form of entertainment.

[LynneSin]

6. Just because I don't like something doesn't mean it should not exist

Posting about wanting a certain genre of art to die is pretty disrespectful to those who appreciate it

[LSdemocrat]

7. This is the DU Lounge . . . you can't take postings here too seriously

[Ravenseye]

5. Everything dies

I agree that it's sort of pissy to moan about that when you don't like something, and I get that was your point....but it will die eventually...all art forms have really. We're, for the most part, doing really different crap now than we were 1000 years ago. 1000 years from now we'll be doing all new crap.

The funny part is that people 1000 years from now will be complaining about their Buck Rodgers Space Disco crap and looking back on historical types of things and a 20th century Rap star will be far closer historically to Mozart than anythign they currently have then.

[mondo joe]

8. Performance art has been on an Iron Lung since 1988 or so.

That's not really living, is it?

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

9. The problem with modern performance art is the same problem

as most modern visual art - it's incredibly narrow focused.

It's like artist can only focus on one thing at a time these days. And to make it worse, they base their entire careers on that one little niche.

For instance, in visual art, today you have TONS of color theory artists (you know, the ones with just several boxes of different solid colors). What they don't understand at all is that the great masters (Da Vinci, Raphael, Michaelangelo, etc.) understood color theory and they APPLIED that knowledge to a contextual scene. That's part of what made them masters. Today, it's just good enough to show you understand color theory, which in my opinion is not only lazy and unimaginative, but it's crap.

Similarly, in performance art, the artists focus on just one tiny aspect of art and blow it up to the point where it's the entire production. The good performance artists will incorporate that knowledge into something more contextual.